Nude As The News reviews Radiohead’s Amnesiac – the backlash begins. Musicological stuff aside what seems to bug them is that it’s bitty, slight, Yorke fucks his voice up loads and that it runs its ideas into the ground. These are a[…]

ABBA – “The Day Before You Came”
Abba’s second-last single is mundane and spooky, terrified and tender and startlingly original – a song about an office worker which dares to empathise? “Fitter Happier” made […]

BASEMENT JAXX – “ROMEO” (MP3)
when modern music looks into the past for archetypal lovers, it usually comes up with two results, men whose individual approaches to amor could scarely be more different: romeo and casanova. casanova w[…]

tom cruise to star as phil spector: oi! tom cruise! oi! cameron crowe!! yes, a phil spector biopic would be a good thing, but do we really want it from the team who brought us jerry maguire? and considering crowe’s last foray into making a movi[…]

Am I Cool Or Not?….OK, there’s no new AICON today. But there are, at long last, the archives![…]

Deep in the bowels of freakytrigger.com something stirs….Pop Eye, a week late, for which I apologise heartily to guest-writers John and Kate.[…]

Pop And Me: (I wrote this in the forum but I quite liked it as an answer to an – ahem – Frequently Asked Question)
I don’t like the word “ironic” not cause it doesn’t hide a grain of truth but because it’s re[…]

Dreams Of Declan: “My dream is to get his girlfriend out of the way” – hold on now missus that’s a bit scary.[…]

An Indieland Snapshot: 30 acts which we’ve talked about quite a lot here, and their relative popularity on artofthemix.com. The no. is how many of the approx 10,000 catalogued ‘mixes’ they’ve appeared on.
Radiohead – 1,5[…]

Big Beat Nut: it’s a guy who likes records with beats in them. Big ones. It’s in a weblog format and has – respect is due – soundfiles! Though less crit than I’d like.[…]